The McCann family’s pleas for privacy look likely to go unheeded, judging by the media frenzy which followed them from Portugal back to Britain. Crowds of journalists tailed them every centimetre of the way from their Praia da Luz apartment to Faro airport yesterday morning, in cars, TV satellite trucks and a news channel helicopter […]

McCanns arrive back in England under pressure Madeleine McCann’s parents faced fresh anguish today as social services and police met to discuss the family. It is understood the Leicestershire authorities were meeting this afternoon to discuss how they should now respond to the Rothley youngster’s disappearance and the naming of her parents, Kate and Gerry, […]

Kate Mccann arriving at the police station Portuguese police have finished questioning Kate McCann and have released her without charge. Her husband Gerry and now arrived at the police station for his own interview. Earlier it had been suggested by McCann family members that Mrs McCann feared she would be charged over her missing daughter. […]

An online petition has been launched urging social workers in Madeleine McCann’s home county to investigate the circumstances surrounding her disappearance. By Monday night, more than 1,700 people had signed it, calling on Leicestershire social services to “investigate the circumstances which led to three-year-old Madeleine McCann and her younger siblings being left unattended in an […]